Please Fix Portraits

Portraits were such an amazing addition to the game, but goddamn, they break if you even BREATHE on them. It's been over a year and now even DT released and absolutely nothing has been done up until this point, and I'm starting to feel like nothing will be done either. So many times it feels like I have to update a gear set and then still have to go to portraits and update them separately too.

I just don't understand why they have to default back to a driver's license photo when anything doesn't match?? I clearly recognizes that there is a portrait associated with your set if it's going to give the message "This doesn't match, reverting to default", but why revert AT ALL?? It drives me insane...

I think when it was first introduced it was good...then they botched it.
Extracted materia? Well, your portrait is broken now.
Hid your helmet? Your portrait is broken now...

yeah...exciting concept, but I still get the god damn mugshot instead of the portait I spent time working on...
Then I load into a duty and everyone got mugshots...why even interact with this system

Hidden slightly flashy gif of mugshot

https://media1.tenor.com/m/sIxZEo9rLqUAAAAd/cv.gif

I’d have prerered if the Portrait system/Adventure Plate was an actual .png/.jpeg image.
It could have been done within the Gpose, store at maximum of X shots (saved into a folder in your computer/console like it was a .dat file) and accessible from a separate window in the game.

You take the photo, save it as Portait, go into your Portraits/Adventurer Plate Editor, load the photo. Done.
It also would have added more variety to each shot and it’s have gave more creativity to the players…

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Originally Posted by Jokerz_93

I’d have prerered if the Portrait system/Adventure Plate was an actual .png/.jpeg image.
It could have been done within the Gpose, store at maximum of X shots (saved into a folder in your computer/console like it was a .dat file) and accessible from a separate window in the game.

You take the photo, save it as Portait, go into your Portraits/Adventurer Plate Editor, load the photo. Done.
It also would have added more variety to each shot and it’s have gave more creativity to the players…

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They'd have to be careful in that scenario, as we saw how... shall we say 'creative' some players can be with their portrait pictures, and surely being able to upload from folders on PCs would open up the use of modded (from the likes of Mare) images?

Square Enix could mitigate some problems with making the picture in your adventurer plate the "fallback" when your Portrait breaks for one of those needless reasons again. Or give a prompt when changing a saved outfit that allows you to update your portrait with one click...

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Originally Posted by Rueby

I think when it was first introduced it was good...then they botched it.
Extracted materia? Well, your portrait is broken now.
Hid your helmet? Your portrait is broken now...

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Yep. I remember preferring the "beta" and being thoroughly disappointed with the current implementation.
It should just default to your adventurer plate portrait no matter what your job is when your portrait is "broken". No one is gonna freak out about someone's portrait being a summoner when they queued in as tank.

Portraits should work like they used to before and they should automatically adjust to the gear equipped.

Tying portraits to gearsets has the annoying effect of having to "save" those you've made but don't want to use right now into other random sets. We should just be able to have a specific maximum amount of portraits (let's say 50), and then link those to gearsets.

Wasn't it working fairly well until they had to start changing things because catgirls wouldn't stop using photos of their rear in the 2B leggings as portraits?

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Originally Posted by Midare

Wasn't it working fairly well until they had to start changing things because catgirls wouldn't stop using photos of their rear in the 2B leggings as portraits?

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No that's different. The issue is, touching materia / accessories / any armor requires a reset. It's really annoying and poorly implemented. The adventurer plate is one and done. It never needs to be updated regardless of gear switching. Just apply that same thing to portraits. Give us one for each class, make it so you save it once and it is done / works even if you change your gear.

Alternatively, have the portraits auto-update based on any changes instead of it needing to be done manually.

The only thing that I have seen that makes a portrait "unacceptable" is posing. You can only change posing within the portrait interface. So why the heck are all these things I change outside of the portrait interface making it unacceptable?

so either:
1. automatically update
or
2. Use the previous one that was "acceptable"